On Sun, 11 May 2008 14:34:06 +0100 (BST), Reuben Thomas wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2008, David Paleino wrote: > > > ":" is a special Bash character [1], and we can't do anything about that. > > There's clearly a bug here: at the very least, non-existent, incorrect > completions should not be produced.
The version I currently have does not produce the output you reported, i.e.: $ man Debian[TAB] Debian::DictionariesCommon DebianNet $ man Debian:[TAB] $ man Debian: That means, it does not produce "non-existent, incorrect completions". I have bash-completion/20060301-4 installed, try that. > More reasonably, bash's completion mechanism should be fixed. > > Hence, please reassign the bug as you think fit; I agree that assignment to > bash would seem to be the obvious choice. I'll wait for other people's comments about this. I've just started hacking bash-completion, hence I may have missed something. Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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